Switched to Press Your Luck while I got organized. This one was all about the guys. The lady didn't get much money in the first round and kept hitting Whammies in the second. The guys ran into their fair share of Whammies as well. It looked like the younger former football player was going to Whammy out, but he got $2000 that put him back in the game. The other got two Whammies in a row, before landing on a London vacation in the last second that put him over.
Headed out after Luck ended to run errands on the White Horse Pike. Started at Dollar General first. I didn't see the conditioner I wanted there, and their vitamin bottles were tiny and overpriced. I did pick up Easter gift bags for the kids, cards for my mom and my friend Kelly's birthdays this month, and a get-well-soon card for poor Karen. Didn't find anything I needed at Family Dollar.
Got a treat at WaWa. I wonder if they're celebrating an anniversary this year, since their spring drink theme seems to be "birthday cake." I got the vanilla birthday cake smoothie and a soft pretzel. The smoothie was basically a vanilla smoothie with a slight buttery flavor topped with cake sprinkles. Not bad, but not "cake," either. Grabbed two Coke Zeroes for later today and tomorrow.
It was too nice of a day to go home right away. The sun was out, the sky was blue, and the wind that blasted Camden County for the last few days had gentled down to a stiff breeze. It had soared into the mid-60's by 2 PM, warm for mid-March. Hiked over the railroad tracks and down to the tiny Tracy Connors Park on the edge of Oaklyn. I goofed around on the playground, pretending to "drive" the red metal wheels, managing to climb through the blue tunnel and get down the hilly slide.
Hiked across Oaklyn and down Newton Road to CVS. Truth be told, their prices aren't all that great, either, but I did get buy one, get one half-off sugar free antacid here. Peeked at their Easter toys, but I think I'll wait until next week to pick up those.
Put on F-Troop while eating lunch when I got home. O'Rourke and Agarn are horrified when Wrongo Starr (Henry Gibson) is assigned to Fort Courage. He's a jinx who wrecks havoc wherever he goes. His bad luck does come in handy when Agarn falls for a lovely lady in black who has already buried three husbands. Wrangler Jane helps O'Rourke steer her to Wrongo and get "Wrongo Starr and the Lady In Black" away from the fort.
"El Diablo" is the first of two times Larry Storch played one of Agarn's criminal relatives. In this case, it's a Mexican bandit whom is wanted by the authorities. Agarn goes after him, only for him to turn up at Fort Courage. Turns out he's not nearly the bloodthirsty criminal everyone believes him to be, though...
Moved online to watch Palm Beach Weekend on Amazon Prime. I go further into this imitation Where the Boys Are spring break tale from Warner Bros at my Musical Dreams Movie Reviews blog.
Looked at jobs online. Checked the websites for Barnes and Noble, but there's no jobs at any of the near-by stores. The only bookseller job is apparently out in the Philly suburbs. Everything else is working in the coffee shop. I'm not a barista. I don't even drink coffee.
Switched to writing next. Nip-Tok reveals why he's not with the rest of the Oz Army when he winds down in the middle of reciting poetry. The others have to wind him back up again to get him to finish his verse and finish taking them to the Wizard.
Broke for dinner and Match Game Syndicated at 7 PM. Phyllis Diller looked surprisingly good in a nifty beaded wig, and had some funny answers, too. Charles finally admitted all the drinking they do behind the scenes on this show when he flat-out said he was hungover during one question. Gene's question about "Old Man Rayburn" hosting Match Game '99 hits a little harder today. Gene not only didn't host the short-lived and rather notorious Match Game '98, he passed away in November 1999.
Finished the night with the 2-disc LP set for the 2018 revival of Carousel I picked up at Abbie Road last week. While this didn't see the acclaim that the revival of Oklahoma! did a year later, it did well enough to get nominated for Best Revival. The full Carousel Waltz takes up almost the entire first side and is absolutely gorgeous. I also like Jesse Muller's lovely Julie, especially her "What's the Use In Wonderin'?" and Renee Fleming's marvelous "You'll Never Walk Alone" and "June Is Bustin' Out All Over." Thankfully, the dated story isn't as obvious on the album as it apparently was during the show's run. (I do wish they hadn't dropped two songs, especially the villain Jigger's "There's Nothing So Bad for a Woman").
All in all, if you're a fan of Carousel or Rogers and Hammerstein like me, you'll want to take a look at this latest version of what amounts to their darkest show.
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